Richard Perle: 'Not A Reasonable Question' To Ask Whether Iraq War Was Worth It

" One of George W Bush's "thinkers" is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about "total war", I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now."



http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/Discus/2002-12-12ANewPearlHarbor.htm
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Obama Mideast Trip: U.S. Officials Set Low Expectations For President's Journey

I'm not really sure what strategic importance Israel has to the US anymore now that we have occupation forces across the Middle East. Israel's value as a beachhead has evaporated. This isn't the 1980s.



In short, just by the US suggesting Israel looks to lose its position as strategic partner, might make negotiations on a long term, two state solution easier.
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Matthew Keys Case Shows Rogue Employees Can Be Just As Dangerous As Hackers

Not to be mean, but IT professionals tend to be a bit off the beaten trail and anti-social. When the IT outsourcing boom to India began in the 90's ... where companies found they could replace one well paid tech worker in the US with three in India ... the companies took glee in giving the American Tech Workers the heave ho. Unfortunately, the Americans who were laid off also tended to be the individuals that built the IT systems to begin with. The American IT workers knew the peculiarities of the systems, their idiosyncratic nature, their back doors. None of this information appears in tech manuals, or was turned over to their replacements, of course. So, basically, with the layoffs, the companies dumped the most sensitive knowledge that ran the systems that powered their business onto the streets in the memory banks of techies who frequently viewed themselves as screwed by the situation.



Executives don't consider this when they enjoy the reduced FTE and payroll.
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Tomas Young, Dying Iraq War Veteran, Pens 'Last Letter' To Bush, Cheney On War's 10th Anniversary

Let's remember something ... the Atta Cell behind the 9-11 attacks was based in Hamburg, Germany.



US Invades Afghanistan to secure Caspian Sea Oil Pipeline Taliban balked at ... the Pipeline now exists.



US Invades Iraq to secure control of Iraq's under exploited Oil Fields ... Mission Accomplished.



The occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan bracketed Iran for future invasion to recover control of Iranian oil fields lost when the Shah fell in 1979 ... Pending.



The US sends troops into Mindanao after AQ offshoot Abu Sayyaf, By 2004 the leadership of that group and its core members were wiped out .... US Troops remain as ExxonMobil drills for oil in the Sulu Sea.



But remember, the Iraq War and Global War on Terror were about Good vs Evil ... not oil.



Great letter, Mr Young. Thank you.
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European Leaders Urge Cyprus Not To Tax Bank Accounts With Less Than 100,000 Euros

This is really a mistake for the Banking Sector. Consider this, Banks pay interest in order to attract depositors, so the banks can turn around and invest their depositor's money in other areas of the business. If a Bank "taxes" people's deposits then they are, in essence, charging them to deposit their money. It would make more sense for people just to keep their money in a mattress, or convert it into precious metals than use a bank. This is really a short-sighted idea, and that is probably why the Banks are staying closed until Thursday. From a depositor's perspective, you should withdraw your cash and stash it somewhere so it won't be confiscated by the ECB.
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European Leaders Urge Cyprus Not To Tax Bank Accounts With Less Than 100,000 Euros

-"They are treating us like guinea pigs," said Takis Georgiou, 49. "The government has lost its credibility in the eyes of the people. We'd be better off leaving the euro and returning to the pound, we don't want to end up like Greece."-



BINGO!
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Cryonic Preservation After Death: What Does The Science Say? (VIDEO)

I would think that you would need to be frozen alive in order to be revived for treatment in the future. Once you are dead, you are dead. You would need to be resurrected rather than revived at that point.



Just live your life and die like everyone else does ... how hard is that?
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What You Should Know About the Cyprus Controversy

What we have here is the unwinding of a massive global derivatives Ponzi that has been collapsing in slow motion since 2008, only propped up by constant infusions of capital by Central Banks around the world. The Bankers are panicking because they don't know when the bottom completely falls out, but they know it is coming. The ECB fronts for the International Bankers in the same way the Federal Reserve does in the United States. Moving in on depositor's money signals a panic on the part of Bankers to lock down hard assets, but the problem is there is a couple quadrillion dollars in fraud infecting pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and banks, but there aren't enough hard assets on earth to cover all the losses.



"Tiptoe through the window

By the window, that is where I'll be

Come tiptoe through the tulips with me



Oh, tiptoe from the garden

By the garden of the willow tree

And tiptoe through the tulips with me



Knee deep in flowers we'll stray

We'll keep the showers away

And if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight

Will you pardon me?

And tiptoe through the tulips with me"



Tiny Tim
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Paul Krugman: Cyprus Bailout Will Push Europeans To Stage A Run On Their Banks

- “It’s as if the Europeans are holding up a neon sign, written in Greek and Italian, saying ‘time to stage a run on your banks!’” Krugman wrote in the blog post. -



True, the International Bankers are just looting these countries now, and it is a sign of the Bankers Fear not their Hubris. The International Bankers, for whom the ECB is just a front, have read the writing on the wall, in terms of high unemployment and growing social strife across the region, and know they need to lock down the assets before the EU collapses.



The Cyprus move is definitely a sign of things to come across the whole region.
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Cyprus Bank Levy Vote Delayed By Parliament Until Monday, As Nation's Bailout Hangs In The Balance

Again, Iceland is the only country that handled the economic crisis correctly. In real terms, the EU's balance sheets are so toxic moves like this across the depressed member states is like trying to save your TV and Microwave Oven as your house burns down. The die is cast for the EU.
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Jeb Bush CPAC Speech Says GOP Must Stop Being 'Anti Everything' Party

"Bush lamented that liberals have "channeled the anger and frustration that comes from this oppressive dynamic and used it as an opportunity to attack the very idea of success itself," and argued that conservatism holds out the best path upward for those without power or means."



Hmm. A couple of things.



First, Conservatives pay a lot of lip service to egalitarian concepts, but in concrete terms are happier to step on you when you fall then help you up.



Second. Wealth hoarding is addiction not success. Addicts always claim to be in control, but never are. Addicts also are never satisfied, and are always Jonesing for more no matter who gets hurt in the process. I have no respect for that kind of "Success", and that kind of "Success" defines the Republican Party.
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Greenspan Says Too Big To Fail Problem 'Is Getting Worse, Not Better'

Since it is a Ponzi financed by securities kiting it is not surprising the problem is growing exponentially. At this point, "Too Big to Fail" has become "Too Big To Bail" even if the US Government desires to, The next crash that sweeps the financial sector will conservatively involve hundreds of trillions in evaporating assets. Such a Global hit would be impossible for the Central Banks of Earth to react to in a meaningful way.



"Irrational Exuberance" has given way to Global Economic Existential Threat.
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CPAC Panel On Race: 'Young, White Southern Males' Hurt By Racial Outreach

If you are a young white American male in the South and you are unable to compete with minorities, with the traditional pro-white entitlement structure you were born into, I hate to break it to you, but the problem is with you, not the minorities.
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Republican Senators Hopeful Obama Is Ready To Slash The Safety Net

President Obama's presidency enters lame-duck status if he caves on Earned Benefits, and Democrats will face wipe out in 2014. I'm sure that is what the GOP is hoping for.
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Republican Senators Hopeful Obama Is Ready To Slash The Safety Net

If Obama caves on Earned Benefits he is guaranteeing the permanent Republican Majority of Karl Rove's dreams.
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Marco Rubio CPAC Speech: GOP Senator Addresses Beliefs On Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion Rights

Life begins at viability outside of the host.
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Jim Inhofe: Obama Is 'Destroying This Country,' But He Is Charming

The Conservative Movement destroyed America, the Conservatives just want to scapegoat the President for Conservative failings of the last thirty-two years.
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Marriage In the Age of the Printable Engagement Ring

I need an understanding of what constitutes a Millennial. By my reckoning the oldest anyone born in the year 2000 can be is 13. It's hard to believe many are already settling down, but I can see how printable engagement rigs could be all the rage in Middle School.



Oh, sorry, I just saw this:



"According to the Pew Research Center, just 25 percent of Millennials between the ages 18-28 have been married. Compare this to 34 percent of their Gen Xer older siblings at that age, and 48 perent of their Boomer parents."



I still don't understand how the Millennial label is earned though.
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America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)

I'd say Newtown crime photos is a good start. I would add that crime photos from other gun massacres and killings should follow. And each photograph should be emblazon with:



"Brought to you by the NRA and (Insert Gun Manufacturer's Name Here)"



To this day, when I close my eyes, I can still conjure the images of car accident fatalities from the Drivers Ed Films "Signal 30" and "Red Asphalt", I saw in the 1970's.



You are correct, Mr Moore, there are some images, once seen, that are never forgotten. Let's hope you are correct that a member of Law Enforcement from the site of one of these Mass Killing Tragedies does the right thing, and schools an ignorant populace on reality.
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Senate Hearing On Sexual Assault In The Military Takes On Justice System

Hey kids, I hate to break your heart, but for decades sexually exploiting women, beating them, raping them, treating them like animals has been considered R&R for American Servicemen in Red Light Districts outside of foreign bases around the world. You can't tell men that abusing, and humiliating women in one context is acceptable, and in another is taboo ... that doesn't work.



If the Senate discusses the abuse of women in the US Military without examining the sexual humiliation of women as countenanced R&R you are looking at the problem with one eye shut.
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Obama: Budget Deal May Be Impossible If Republicans Continue To Insist We 'Gut' Entitlements

Note to President Obama: Drop "Entitlements" ... go with "Earned Benefits". The Right 's wordsmiths will never recover from that.
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Obama: Budget Deal May Be Impossible If Republicans Continue To Insist We 'Gut' Entitlements

All that the Democratic Party has as its legacy are the beloved, taken-for-granted programs of the New Deal, and Great Society, in addition to the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. If the Republicans convince the Democrats to dismantle these programs, to cave on Voters and Civil Rights, then there is no Democratic Party ... Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and other social safety net programs that help The People are all the Democrats can cite as their reason for support. I don't care what leaders in the Koch backed DLC have to say on the matter, for what I am laying out here is fact.



If I were a Democrat in office, or an aspirant to higher office as a Democrat, I would be fighting like Hell to protect The People's Earned Benefits Programs, for the minute Democrats allow their rich campaign contributors, and their Republican opponents convince them that compromise on these programs "is only right" ... the reason for being a Democrat for millions of Americans evaporates.



I hope the President understands that there is no greater prize for the Right Wing then to have the Social Safety Net programs they despise dismantled by an African American Democrat President. That's winning the lottery for them.



Don't cave on Earned Benefits, Democrats, there is no recovery from that for your party. No second chance. None.
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Paul Ryan Budget: House GOP Unveils Blueprint To Slash Medicaid, Medicare And Repeal Obamacare

Remember the defining quote of Ryan's owner: "I Want My Fair Share and That’s ALL OF IT" Charles Koch.
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Fukushima And The Navy: Sailors Sue Japan Nuclear Plant Owner, Saying Disaster Made Them Sick

See, the real problem with Fukushima is this. The meltdown continues, it just isn't covered by the press. The disaster at Fukushima is far more significant than the event in Chernobyl, and while Chernobyl has been encased in a concrete sarcophagus for decades (Which the Russians intend on replacing) the meltdown in Japan has been open to the air, and ocean water since the event began. Seals are appearing in Alaska with lesions. Tuna off the west coast of the United States are showing signs of radiation in them that links their contamination to Fukushima. The reason these US sailors are barred from suing for their exposure is likely because the US Government wanted their exposure hushed up as much as possible. Unfortunately: Internet.



This wouldn't be the first time the United States Government stepped in and prevented US Military personnel from suing the Japanese for damages, the survivors of the Bataan Death March in WWII who found themselves working in Japan as slave labor prior to the end of the war were likewise barred by the US Government for suing for damages.
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Government Funding Bill Unveiled By Senate Democrats

When the majority of Red State Americans are Functionally Retarded you get "leaders" representing them like Paul Ryan, who is undermining the future of the United States as his supportive Geriatric Billionaire Con ninnies giggle.
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FDIC Secretly Settling Bank Cases For Years With 'No Press Release' Clause: Report

You want to see how a Third World, Kleptocratic Government runs? Here's your example. An audit in order?
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Distinguished Warfare Medal Honoring Drone Pilots Faces Bipartisan Backlash

A friend of mine's twelve year-old kid defeated the Lich King at level 80 in an ICC Raid on World of Warcraft, so when should he expect a medal from the Pentagon?



I'm sure that is harder than killing civilians in a drone strike.
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Martin Schulz, European Parliament President: Europe Saved The Banks, But Could Be 'Losing A Generation'

Only Iceland approached the financial crisis correctly by allowing The People to choose the path out of the crisis via referendum, focusing on punishing the malevolent actors in the Financial Sector and Elected Office who brought about the collapse, restructuring the laws of Iceland to prevent Bankers from ever crashing the economy again, and providing debt relief to the people of Iceland in order to get the economy back on track. Iceland's GDP has been rising as the rest of Europe, England and the US has been stagnant in meaningful recovery.



Protecting criminals, and putting Governments in the position of covering the bad bets of the Financial Sector is a losing proposition, and worse, creates the same type of Moral Hazard in the Financial Sector that leads to the risky behavior that crashed the Global Economy in 2008.



Final note ... the Banks haven't been saved, their fate has merely been postponed.
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Paul Ryan: GOP Budget Assumes Obamacare Repeal

Our Right Wing Feudal Lords in Waiting require a desperate, ignorant, fearful populace, forever battered by images of what happens to someone who steps out of line, so the Social Safety Net must be eliminated. If you look at the things Paul Ryan's Billionaire Right Wing Owners are at war with ... Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unions, Public Education, and even the pro Health Care Industry/ Pharma Obamacare ... you understand what their plan is.



To paraphrase the Blue Oyster Cult ... the choice for Americans in either a life on their feet or on their knees.



I choose to stand up.
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Paul Krugman Accuses Republican Senator Ron Johnson Of Using 'Non-Facts' In Social Security Debate

All of these John Birch Republican's worldviews are based on a work of fiction, only they don't realize Ayn Rand was a fiction writer. When Senators, like Ron Johnson, start babbling on about Social Security they always display the wild eyed intensity of 70's era Trekies arguing whether the Klingon's or the Romulans were a greater threat to the Federation as they waited in line for an autograph from Walter Koenig, or to purchase a Tribble at a Star Trek Convention.



I never take these Bircher - Ayn Randians seriously on Economics or their Utopian Libertarianism and no sane person should, for, like most Right Wingers, they ignore what doesn't support their convictions, and reconfigure history to support their fatally flawed individualist view of America as something other than a story of humans building together and succeeding as part of a community. Most "go-it-alone-rugged-individuals" in the frontier days of the United States starved in the wilderness, broke limbs and whimpered alone under a tree until they expired, poisoned themselves by eating unfamiliar flora, became the food of wild animals, or ran afoul of a tribe of natives and were dispatched with haste. The individuals who succeeded in the United States did so as a member of a community.



I wouldn't take Senator Ron Johnson's opinion seriously on any issue affecting myself or people I cared about.



(Apologies to any offended 70's era Trekies ... I waited in line for Walter Koenig's autograph once too.)
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Ashley Judd Senate Run: Actress, Activist Planning To Declare Candidacy, Sources Say

What's that I smell? Is it .... turtle soup?
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Stonehenge Was Ancient Graveyard, Researchers Say (VIDEO)

Please. Must I do everything? Look at the layout. Stonehenge was a barbecue ringed with urinals. Come on.
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Dow Jones Hits 'Record High' Thanks To Strong Performances From Smoke, Mirrors Sectors

Excellent piece.



I'd add that we have reentered the Boom/Bust cycle that characterized the US Economy prior to the implementation of Financial Sector restraints during the FDR Administration. Those restraints finally biting the dust with the passing of the Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act, which eliminated Glass Steagall, and the Commodities Modernization Act of 2000 that deregulated derivatives and hedge funds, empowering the greatest engine of global financial fraud in human history.



Further, I would be curious if profits being reported by companies, in absence of real economic activity, are actually due to investment of capital in the Wall Street fraud factory, and not representative of the core health of their business. Since the fall of Arthur Andersen due to the ENRON collapse did nothing to change the culture of fraud in Corporate Accounting, my guess is that multiple sets of books would make getting to the bottom of that mystery nearly impossible, so we will just have to sort this out in the postmortem of the next crash.



Finally, I am curious if the encrypted "Insurance" file WikiLeaks distributed a couple of years ago, does, in fact, contain the smoking gun that Banks and Hedge Funds were counterfeiting principal for investment by the means of unregulated Alchemy of derivative/CDS Contract creation.
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Paul Krugman: Markets Telling Us Washington's 'Prejudices' Are Wrong

I think what the Markets are telling us is that since the final restraints on the Financial Sector, implemented during the Great Depression, were removed at the end of the Clinton years, with the Republican's Gramm Leach Bliley Act and Commodities Modernization Act of 2000, the United States has re-entered a Boom/Bust Cycle. So my question isn't how high will the Unrestrained Markets will go, but how bad will the next Crash be, how deep with the economic trough be the next crash causes, and does the United States have any tools left in its arsenal to meaningfully intervene when the next financial crisis arises?



I view our economy at this point as a toddler who slipped the grasp of their parent, sneaked under a guard rail, and is now happily giggling with toddler pride as it dances gleefully on the edge of a Grand Canyon cliff.
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It's Official: Too Big to Fail Banks Are Too Big to Jail

If the Banks themselves are "Too Big to Jail", that's not to say that Corporate Officers and Members of the Boards of Directors of these entities who oversaw their organizations malevolent acts are "Too Big to Jail" ... Iceland proved that. And maybe by tempering reward with risk on the part of the leaders of these organizations we can modify the behavior of the organizations as a whole. Since the Right seems to be hot on defunding the IRS, then IRS Audits of the principles running the TBTF Banks leading up to the 2008 crash should be the first order of Business. Remember, Al Capone was taken down by an auditor.
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John Brennan Confirmation Battle Stirs Drone Strike Controversy

A Nation can't claim to be a beacon of Liberty and Freedom to the world and then indiscriminately murder civilians with drone strikes.
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Jim Himes, Former Goldman Sachs Executive, Introduces Bill To Deregulate Derivatives

Derivatives are the way the financial sector counterfeits wealth. There are now over two quadrillion dollars in derivatives percolating through the global economy and that amount is growing daily through the same wealth generating process that check kiters use ... the playing of trade float that prevents the actual value of investment paper from catching up with the fraud value of investment paper in circulation. Any regulations that slows down the system is like a teller putting a hold on a check in a check kiter's con ... it would cause the con to crash. That is why we see this type of legislation introduced by a Wall Street Congressman.



The massive amount of derivative fraud is also why the stock market is breaking records in the middle of a global Depression. All the excuses of why Wall Street is doing well compared to Main Street falls flat when you exclude massive institutional fraud from the equation.
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Rand Paul Filibusters John Brennan Nomination

So this Filibuster will lead to the repeal of the Patriot Act, right? No? Then it's just Performance Art.
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Hugo Chavez Is No Hero

In other words ... you aren't too fond of Hugo Chavez.
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Jeb Bush Book: Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Ineligible For Citizenship

Yet another Pale Face speaking with forked tongue. So much for Jeb's stature with Hispanics.
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Gene Sperling: Obama Raised Entitlement Reform In Budget Talks

It's not the President who will suffer if he tampers with the Earned Benefits programs of the American People ... it will be the Democratic Party, long after President Obama leaves office.



Progressives will remember any betrayal by Democrats of Americans Earned Benefits, and will remind the voting public of this betrayal every election cycle going forward, even if it helps the Republicans ... believe it.



Democrats, Tampering with the Earned Benefits Programs of the American People is Kryptonite ... put your hands in your pocket on this issue, and back away slowly.
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Eric Holder: Voting Rights Act Can't Be Called Unnecessary Yet

What we need is an Omnibus Voting Rights Amendment to the US Constitution that covers all of the various issues we are repetitively encountering as a Nation.



It needs to address voter disenfranchisement. Criteria for voting simply being an American Citizen 18 or older at time of the election. That's it. Even ex-cons should have their right to vote re-established after they serve their sentence.



Centralized maintenance, by the Justice Department, of current voter registration lists.



Installing, uniform voter experience for Americans across the nation, if it only takes a voter in California, one of the most populous States, 15 or 20 minutes to vote, it should not take seven hours in Florida or Ohio.



Federal Government Control of all electronic voting machine software, preferably by the Secret Service, with stiff penalties for any individual or corporate entity implicated in tampering with the voting process.



Elimination of the Electoral College in deciding the President.



Federal Election Days are National Holidays to increase participation.



Gerrymandering of Congressioanl Districts determined by non-partisan commissions.



The time has come to correct our basic problems of voting at a level that puts tampering with our democracy out of reach of Legislators, The Supreme Court, and President. Only a Constitutional Amendment can do that.
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John Roberts Voting Rights Act Comments Wrong, Massachusetts Official William Galvin Says

Ideological Zealots, like Chief Justice Roberts, fabricate the facts they need to further their agenda ... that's how we arrived at the Citizen's United ruling debacle.
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Mitch McConnell Fires Back At Attacks On Wife

Mitch McConnell needs to do this. He needs to make engaging on his wife taboo in the election because there is a huge liability for him if people start digging. Attacking anyone's race or ethnicity is dirty pool ... although the Republicans have turned it into sport in terms of President Obama ... but the fact Elaine Chao was in the George W Bush's Cabinet at the time he was not only undermining American workers by fast tracking their jobs to Communist China, but was relying heavily on Communist China to underwrite Bush's wars by buying US Debt, makes the relationship the Chao family had with the leadership of Communist China through James Chao, Elaine's father absolutely relevant.



So, let's be clear, attacking Elaine over her Chinese heritage is bad ... but focusing on how George W Bush leveraged Elaine Chao ... with a direct line to Bejing's leaders, including Jiang Zemin ... while he was blowing up the US Debt and selling it to Communist China, and working with the US Chamber of Commerce to relocate American jobs there ... is definitely fair game.



NOW, will any of the simpering members of the Washington Press Corp following up on the Elaine Chao/Bejing connection, or, as expected, will they fan the flames of diversion that Mitch McConnell is hoping for? We can guess.
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Mitch McConnell Berates Kentucky Progress For Attacking Wife Elaine Chao

I do think Elaine Chao's family relationship with Taiwanese and Communist Chinese leaders, including Jiang Zemin, are fair game and not racist to discuss in the least. I think McConnell knows he has risk in this area if his political opponents wish to exploit it.
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Tipping Points: Can Humanity Break The Planet?

The planet is far too resilient to be "broken" by Man. Man can, however, alter the planet's ability to support Man by poisoning the environment. The planet likely isn't concerned if there is life upon it or not, so should we cause a snowball effect of environmental collapse I'm confident earth, itself, would be indifferent to our plight.
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Scott Walker Compared To Jeffrey Dahmer By Wisconsin Democratic Aide Graeme Zielinski

At least Jeffery Dahmer was personable.
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Sequestration 2013: With Cuts In Place, Obama And GOP Brace For Next Fight

When you consider that the Fed had no problem coming up with 26 trillion dollars for Wall Street Bankers and Corporations when Republican Fiscal Policies crashed the global economy in 2008 ... we do know we live in the era of selective bailouts, and these draconian cuts are an ideological choice to keep America's Elitist inbreeds happy.
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Jan Brewer On Immigrant Detainee Release Nationwide: 'It Could Be Payback' To Arizona

It's the Republican's Sequester, Governor Brewer, deal with it.
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Sequester Deadline All But Blown, Obama Hopes For Big Deal

I wonder if Red State Republicans whose constituents rely heavily on Defense dollars are going to come to regret humiliating Chuck Hagel during his Secretary of Defense confirmation hearing, considering he is the one who will decide where the axe falls in terms of Defense cuts?
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